| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Constructing Visions of the Historical Past: The Politics of Reading, Writing, and Telling of History -- 1 Between Oral Memory and Written History: Re-Membering the Past -- 2 Exchanging Identities: The Makings of the Guvezna Market Community -- 3 Converging Frontiers of Greek and Bulgarian Nationalism: Religious Propaganda, Educational Competition, and National Enlightenment in Macedonia, 1870-1903 -- 4 The Macedonian Struggle in Guvezna: Violence, Terror, and the Scepter of National Liberation, 1903-1908 -- Part II. Class Reformation and National Homogenization: Processes of Consolidation and Change Following the Advent of Greek Rule -- 5 Crossing the Moving Frontier: Group Formation and Social Closure in the Era of Refugee Settlement, 1922-1940 -- 6 Administering the "New Lands" of Greek Macedonia: Class Reformation and National Homogenization, 1913-1940 -- 7 Sponsoring Passages to Nationhood: Material and Spiritual Patronage in Assiros -- Conclusion: Reconstructin the Passages to Nationhood -- Afterword -- Appendix: Genealogies -- Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Deftly combining archival sources with evocative life histories, Anastasia Karakasidou brings welcome clarity to the contentious debate over ethnic identities and nationalist ideologies in Greek Macedonia. Her vivid and detailed account demonstrates that contrary to official rhetoric, the current people of Greek Macedonia ultimately derive from profoundly diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Throughout the last century, a succession of regional and world conflicts, economic migrations, and shifting state formations has engendered an intricate pattern of population movements and refugee res. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Assiros Region (Greece) -- History -- 19th century.
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Assiros Region (Greece) -- History -- 20th century.
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Ethnohistory -- Greece -- Assiros Region.
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Ethnohistory. |
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Greece -- Assiros Region. |
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Nationalism -- Greece -- Macedonia -- 19th century.
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Nationalism. |
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Greece -- Macedonia. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Greece -- Macedonia -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Karakasidou, Anastasia N. Fields of wheat, hills of blood. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997 0226424936 9780226424934 (DLC) 96034475 (OCoLC)35249492 |
| ISBN |
9780226424996 (electronic book) |
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0226424995 (electronic book) |
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9780226424934 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226424936 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226424936 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226424944 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226424941 |
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